joyce leave it to the i love you that's the case we go to the ground in period should the taj west coast coromandel nucular with little socialist good to see don't need to go and. run this in the kennel was her child as a treat. today's top stories and the review of the week from. the sun the task of recovery rescuers are preparing to lift the russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river where it sank in a matter of minutes now sunday claiming around one hundred thirty lives. relatives and investigators are all looking for answers as to why the ship sunk so fast we'll bring you all the details from the recovery site in just a moment. the apologies keep coming and so do the arrests rupert murdoch once again says sorry for the phone hacking by one of his british papers as his former c.e.o. in the u.k. is detained by police. and banking on change libyan rebels now have full diplomatic

recognition from washington and with it access to colonel gadhafi has assets frozen in the u.s. . and intercontinental cash crunch american faces up to the possibility of default europe's debt crisis contagion piles more pressure on the euro. you're watching the weekly on r.t. with the main headlines of the past week and the latest developments it's being described as the biggest disaster in russia's modern history in the space of just three minutes a pleasure cruiser with two hundred eight people on board went down in the volga river taking over half of its passengers with it nearly eight hundred thirty people were killed many of them children a week later the operation to raise the ship from the bottom is underway as tom cotton and ira. the bulgaria is still under the water at the moment behind me you

can probably see the tops of two enormous cranes that have been brought up from further downstream and they're attached to them or is it an enormous cable that goes down and is threaded underneath the ship and that cable is going to be used first of all at the moment divers and the crane teams are in the process of trying to write so that all garrett was leaned on his left side and then once they've reisa to be able to start to lift it up a lot of the complications that divers are facing are due to the way under speed the ship sank. firstly the fact that it's on its left side will mean that divers will have to go under that left side as it's righted first of all to check that the ship is structurally sound to be ready to be raised and also to try and look for some of the fifteen bodies which are still to be accounted for which still haven't been found then once they start to raise the ship divers are going to have to first of all try and find essentially the hole to let in all the water and some of the

ship once they have found out they'll want to seal that hole and all the other caps on the ship so that once it's partially raise to pump out the water from the ship making it light enough to raise it more easily a very complex operation visibility in the water is very poor for the divers there's a lot of algae in the water at this time and so it's proving to be a drawn out process but one that is crucial for all those people waiting for answers a mountain of cuddly toys never to be played. they are flowers and candles a testament to the children among those who drowned on the pleasure boat well gary and sank in the last sunday. we study together for a year she never had arguments and then when she was a very kind girl and was always really can help it's summer. the ship sank in just

three minutes turning a summer afternoon on the river into a scene of horror. is that people were basically buried alive in anti-matter coffin we managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue her she swallowed too much water when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone in the chaos to escape and many other families were also torn apart one five year old boy lost his mother and grandmother and was only kept afloat by a man who grabbed his hand another man unable to hold on to his son and a strong current oil slick to watch him drown in front of him yuri was the deejay for the disco on the bottom deck he only just managed to escape. and i remember clearly that water was rising very quickly it was a matter of seconds i survived because we saw through to him the sailor started pushing people out through it at that moment when we opened the surface and then i

saw the board was already underwater. over half a bulgaria's two hundred eight passengers and crew including the captain his wife and child never made it out meanwhile as the arabella another pleasure boat arrived at the scene she was surrounded by people screaming and drowning unable to reach the banks of the vast river three kilometers away. as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water the people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil fuel that was leaking from a sunken ship it was a terrifying picture i have to say despite a huge search and rescue operation after the initial survivors were picked up a few others were found. but divers in cranes working in this water have been trying to recover just something of the lives lost. and families destroyed in those

few terrible minutes but they've also been working on the question of cost so much why did the bulgaria sink and sink so fast. as the list of bodies recovered from the ship grew so did the number of revelations about an aging dangerous and badly managed vessel eyewitnesses people connected with the ship came forward with damning accounts of its poor condition and the stingy management forced it to keep sailing. i became captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven ship had been renovated for a while before that they were big problems with the engines and power generators to repeatedly mention that to the management and even had an argument with them portal authorities say they were lied to and shipped was only supposed to carry one hundred forty people but was loaded with over two hundred they were told it was carrying twenty more tales of pounds including a broken engine electricity generators failing so that no s.o.s.

signal or tunnel instructions could be issued and blocked emergency exits criminal cases have been opened and arrests being made to the bulgaria sinking and more controversially into why two ships which reach the scene before the arabella didn't pick up a single person at the ports the crew members instead took pictures on their mobile phones. those are the good. old newcastle has which shocked there were about seven thousand people on a raft many had cuts and injuries that were bleeding we yelled for help i saw the board passers by in a different direction towards. the slow process of raising the bulgaria has now started up with it will come the potential for answers but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ship's play room or a group of children were gathered on the ship sank. just some of the young victims

in what will go down as one of russia's worst and most of voidable shipping disasters tom bottom party. the captain of a ship who helped rescue seventy seven people from the sinking daria has been describing the horrific disaster the scene in an interview with us r.t. and you can see that in full in about twenty minutes from now we can find it online right now on our website particle commas all the latest reports of the intense search and recovery operations since the tragedy happened then you can keep up to date there and while you're online remember to check out our new chimp channel for all our videos of the salvage mission. is.

but former c.e.o. of rupert murdoch's british newspaper operation has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking and bribery rebecca brooks is the tenth person to be detained in connection with the scandal that's engulfed the defunct news of the world well for more on this i hope to talk to media analyst phil receipts joining us now live in london phil can you hear me there in london. oh yes great welcome to our team good to see you here now rebecca brooks has been arrested for bribery and it's the police who allegedly accepted these bribes so apart from seeing journalists being arrested the moment we see the same action taken by police against the police. well i think that you know inevitably something will have to be done and there are true separate inquiries one being done by police itself but also

an independent judicial inquiry looking into this now i mean whatever i mean i believe police here have been incredibly lazy and been cozying up with people while an investigation has been going on which is in my view and malpractise or indeed there have been crimes committed which is largely perverting the course of justice and it's my guess that i think some people will fall in the third category when an assistant editor of the guardian to day's been writing that he believes the arrest of rebecca brooks is an attempt by police to deflect attention away from them do you think they could actually get away with all of this. well it wouldn't be you know this is this is a good example of what the police have been doing in the kind of murdoch years they've been using a recipe in leaking they've been paid for telling people when celebrities have been arrested so actually manipulating the rest of people it is actually a practice that has become in trying now in my view as a result of the kind of bribery thing so this would hardly be out of practice but i

don't think it's going to deflect opinion i mean there are so many m.p.'s now and indeed so much of the british establishment which for so long kowtow to murdoch is now prepared to get to the bottom of this and weed out those people who have been corrupted at different levels interesting you talk about public opinion obviously the public is losing trust in the media but how about losing trust in the police just how serious would that be. well it is serious i mean remember that four years ago right the police had these bags with i think it was a leaven thousand letters about four thousand celebrities and victims of crime and all these other people and they knew they were taking part investigation and these bags were just left there i mean it's amazing true mockable that it took four years for them to do anything about this meanwhile senior police officers were wining and dining with members of the murdoch empire they were they were meeting them for drinks privately one even hired them at a thousand pounds a day to work for him so you know what does this tell us about the relationship

between the police and the news corp employees well it's very very serious and if this can happen at the top of the police look at the example that gives the officers down down the line so i think yes it is extremely serious is it possible for them to restore public confidence. well i think it will take some time and i think that the inquiry that's now going on by the metropolitan police itself where you could well and ask can any organization properly examine itself but so much is at stake but if that operation is seen to be corrupted as well i think we've got you know an even bigger problem i think so many people now are watching it including you know members of parliament select committees things that investigative qualities within the british political system they're all all eyes are on this let alone all the journalists who are looking at what's going on so i think that the ramifications of this is so big i mean you know britain is is is shaking at this each day it's headline news and people are asking who's next you

know what about the ramifications for the future of journalism you're a reporter yourself are going to be cause for tougher regulation of course what could this have what sort of impact could this have on the freedom of the media in the u.k. and indeed globally because of course this isn't an issue just in the u.k. it goes beyond the borders. well bill it's interesting because you know the other way of looking at this is actually a journalist on the guardian who broke this story and investigative journalist now what i think people are revulse by is the kind of journalism that had developed in this country the domination of tabloid values if you will over a proper investigative journalism over speaking truth to power people which is fairly information about the sexual antics of celebrities all the sordid details of crime victims and what they did afterwards and to see them crying in the front of our newspapers you know this kind of thing in my view should be curtailed people's privacy should be being trained and journalism should get back to its real job and i think that could be a consequence of this just for the. there is

a danger of the media being muzzled isn't there and not being able to bring those who should be protocol to account well i think this will be a major debate because obviously the way that the press is policed in britain will definitely change but i think we must be be absolutely sure that that doesn't restrict journalism in doing its proper job bill good to hear from you thanks very much indeed for joining us live in london phil varies. still ahead this hour on r.t. the dangers of a debt default we examine why the u.s. is on the brink of a financial nightmare and what it might do to try to avoid it. be deserted palestinian settlement the studio churns into a luxury community for israelis. and stories to become a first a new round of nato airstrikes has rattled the suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli as colonel gadhafi never to leave his country in the face of assaults by the alliance and the rebels this comes after the opposition became the legitimate

authority in the country in the eyes of more nations the u.s. and more than thirty other states recognize them at a diplomatic meeting on friday saying they would deal with them until an interim government is in place the recognition by the contact group on libya also gives the rebels access to billions of dollars of the aphids frozen assets. u.s. banks couldn't take the ted role says the move with a radical shift from the international. the united states usually doesn't extend diplomatic recognition to a regime that is not in the capital that isn't in power and doesn't even seem likely to be able to achieve power anytime soon but you can look at the situation in afghanistan during the one thousand nine hundred six to two thousand and one civil conflict there which in the taliban in the northern alliance the northern alliance were the former regime. that had power in kabul and they had your diplomatic relations with the west even though the taleban controlled ninety five percent of the country it's almost just wishful thinking and frankly if i were

a diplomat i would find it disturbing that it's a bizarre situation if the u.s. knows who these people are they're not saying and certainly there's no doubt that traditionally there's always been a very high component of jihad. around benghazi so it's realistic to assume that that is not still because the u.s. has an amazing how it should be a skids full of hundred dollar bills to third world countries and expecting them to end up in the right hands and really going to happen. high level recognition of the rebels may bolster their spirit but it's a different story in combat fierce fighting for a key eastern oil town has ended with heavy casualties among the opposition as daniel bushell now reports it's thought that france is now trying the talking tactic with the libyan regime after failing to deliver a knockout blow to get. books is like bragging will destroy the republicans they're often wrong and gets a nasty surprise i. french foreign minister should

pay both did france would be libya in quote days or weeks the war's into a fourth month and the final round inside nicolas sarkozy with his western allies seem shocked little opponents fighting back well it's not just an embarrassment for stuck with me it's from dallas and for all nato the whole west paris even to me it's all the libya's rebels but on some somalia. wench to libya for training within the last two or three years documented we have the fly records and everything else so it seems strange in many ways the whole western support of some of the rebel groups in libya must be questioned because in some cases i think we are effectively arming al-qaeda. and it's all making a mockery of the un vote on foreign intervention in the contrary they are very good

person. giving. another. witnesses. of libya's cause the widespread atrocities every. military person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled el cindy grilled troops but exposed predict is the only way they'll to break the libyan deadlock. the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of keep italy invading libya was a big stake. for bombs would bring. peace ability child support. lloyd lee diplomats speak for. with elections just more in months away thought voices that

a successful war could resurrect his chances instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion call crash for france's deeply unpopular president sarkozy's a jogging for excessive sweating is understandable this is libyan sprint is turning into a marathon. see paris. play head in the program including red square. a four wheel frenzy is high speed formula one super cars screech through the center of moscow. but first time is running out for american politicians to agree on the next move in sorting out its soaring debt deadline to lift the nation's fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling is looming ever closer as lawmakers struggle to find a solution president obama is urging democrats and republicans to ignore their differences to avert armageddon but needing credit rating agencies say there's

a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock quickly or effectively but as zeke miller from the business insider website says that both parties understand the dangers of further borrowing. and the impact on the u.s. economy the world economy and the global economy really depends on what the credit agencies do and we heard from moody's on wednesday and then from s. and p. both warning severe consequences if the government doesn't raise the debt ceiling in time including a possible downgrade from the government's aaa rating increase just for the federal government that fall. or seven thousand municipalities across the country across united states i don't think anybody thinks united states is going away with this anyway longer it's sort of reached a point where every everybody in both parties agrees that the debt is just too high and they're just they can't borrow any more you can't keep borrowing for you know sort of annual expenditures it's not a sustainable model for any country if this debt ceiling goes up with the u.s. credit rating is downgraded and that would have you know some of its problem with

the current session and slow down the recovery. things a little better in europe with italy now the focus of stopping the euro zone heading into oblivion rooms approve the tough seventy billion euro cuts package to avoid a part is the euro zone's the largest economy could prove too big for its neighbors to bail out eight out of ninety eight european banks have failed stress tests to see if they can survive another financial crisis economics professor patrick human food says that some e.u. countries may have to accept the thought as wealthier nations no longer want to pay for their costly rescue. and i mean we've known all along that a lot of banks in europe north would not pass stress tests if these stress tests included the possibility of sovereign default because of course they've got loads of greek and portuguese and spanish debt and so there was never any question but one of the reasons why it might be in germany is interest to bail out greece is that it's if it doesn't it's going to have

a banking crisis of its own and will have to bailout its own banks but i think the judgment of the taxpayer is they'd rather bail out their own banks if they have to then keep on giving money to a greek so you may not have a good look give it back to them so there's no bailout really impressed by these rich northern countries and therefore the other countries have to think of some way of getting by and that's going to be their fault. and then let's have a brief look at some other stories from around the globe egypt's former president hosni mubarak a suffered a stroke and is in a coma according to his lawyers doctors were reportedly working to bring the eighty three year old leader to consciousness but health officials and state t.v. of the information saying that his condition is stable it comes after the country's prime minister reshuffle this cabinet in response to renewed public protests demanding political reform. the u.s. led coalition has started handing over control of some of afghanistan's territories to local security forces the central region has become the first of seven areas

where that's to happen the head of the end of nato combat operations in the country in twenty fourteen meanwhile in the capital kabul a top aide to afghan president hamid karzai has been killed after a group of armed men attacked his home. and the venezuelan president hugo chavez is back in cuba for more cancer treatment including chemotherapy no more cells have been found after he had surgery to remove a tumor from his perfect region he's transferred some powers to his ministers during his absence but didn't agree to opposition calls for a temporary handover of all presidential authority his battle with cancer has raised doubts over his fitness to lead the country but officially he still plans to run for reelection next year. well in the struggle for land rights in israel is one place that still a deserted territory it used to be a flourishing palestinian community but now israelis are

a luxury getaway as paula. now reports. nestled in the mountains of jerusalem are the remains of a once bustling arab community only the memories of those who once lived here have survived intact open wounds and. back. and i. have seen the hobson's the world through this rain also. in my car that. grew up among the cacti and fig trees but in one nine hundred forty eight just before the state of israel was declared his family evacuated unlike the hundreds of arab villages that disappeared in forty eight and sixty seven most of the original houses of lifter are still here so they really were her children. they really should do. the whole caboodle hopefully they will. have another

us inside the room in the corner and the table so as to prove to. us you could was one of seven hundred thousand palestinians who became a refugee in one nine hundred forty eight is childhood home was quickly absorbed by the newly established a jewish state almost movable as the man who lived in london for the inevitable as he was forced to do all of you moved to because he was rewritten here he is considered as absent clear and he lost the property in nearly nine hundred fifty s. jews moved into the abandoned homes like you only your comments parents they were also refugees fleeing arab countries will likely become dangerous after israel was created the israeli government sent them to live in lifter you only says to prevent arab owners from a churning when the term here and there for live here near as without water without electricity came here to jordan and for memory here is

a very important most of the original two hundred jewish families lived because life in the mountains was difficult and the government was slow to develop the area no one has written is how those for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers and grass no grow if there is empty. and gets into that emptiness that israeli governments now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a chicago tel shops and a museum insisting they'll preserve the area's history we will find ourselves with a neighborhood where history has been concert there will also be documentation and the story will be told of who lived there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but really lucky i could say it's palestinian land and a double injustice. to destroy our. nanny. for the only three people came from anywhere in this where

why i come and my village and come back. back to my privilege and live. with me. and. so i'm for kind of stimulus if there is a physical reminder of injustice and survival but for a fair number of israelis it's an eyesore and they'd rather not be reminded of what happened here if you time they drive into jerusalem policy r t lift or. several watts go streets were impossible on sunday afternoon but not because of the tourist traffic jams they were sealed off to temporarily become the realm of the fast in the fearless and high octane performance formula one drivers burn some serious rubber against the amazing backdrop of the kremlin. it was part of the annual moscow city racing show featuring famous formula one stars of the winners of world ready championships it's

a taste of things to come for russian f one fans as the country will get its own in three years time. i'll recap per today's and this week's main stories for in just a few moments then go away stay with us live here in moscow.

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